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By Robert Scucci | Published
Gotcha games are slowly dismantling society because people no longer think critically, but rather look for sensational “gotcha” moments. I admit, it’s fun to catch someone in the act if they’re really doing something wrong, but gotcha games aren’t like that. Most of the time, what is mentioned is basic common sense for anyone who understands how things work.
Labels that should be common knowledge
After watching a supposed tell-all exposé called “I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Restaurants,” I started thinking about the YouTube gotcha game. most perfect union The channel is playing. Their “big reveal” is that restaurant chains use a supplier called Sysco. The mozzarella sticks from one place are the same ones you’ll find at another, because not all restaurants make them in-house.
For anyone who has worked in a kitchen, this is nothing new. But for many viewers it was amazing. The comments are full of people rejecting any restaurant that has a Sysco truck behind it. Here’s the problem: Sysco doesn’t just sell food. They sell paper goods, utensils, takeout containers, and dish sanitizer. You name it, they sell it. Thanks to reductionist reasoning and another cheating game, people now view their local diners as corporate villains.
I have worked in scratch kitchens. We peel our own potatoes, make our own sauces, hand bread and brine our chicken tenders, and form each burger by hand. But even those places used large distributors to improve margins and make payroll.
Now, because of this game of catch you, people are willing to boycott small businesses that are simply trying to survive. Sysco supplies schools, prisons and restaurants alike. They are a company that sells things to other companies. And how do people react? By saying that “our children’s school lunches are literally prison food.” Do you see how ridiculous that sounds?
How do you think they did it?
On TikTok, they are nothing more than gotcha games of fast food workers “exposing” their employers as the villains they really are. You’ll see Little Caesars employees reveal that the pizza sauce comes from a mixture of powder and water. As if anyone expected that 4,200 places that sell pizzas for eight dollars would have chefs crushing fresh tomatoes at dawn.
What’s next? A McRib exposé showing McDonald’s doesn’t light up a smoker every morning?
Yes, we should be mindful of what we eat, but this reasoning is a slippery slope. I’m not crazy about midsize chains serving the same food at different prices, but boycotting small restaurants because they share national suppliers with large corporations is not activism. It’s ignorance.
It’s not just food
I know this sounds like a defense of fast food and corporate giants, but tag games are everywhere. Turns out this is the one I had in mind.
As a full-time freelancer and stay-at-home mom, I’m always looking for efficient ways to improve my workflow so I can earn a proper living and be there for my kids when they need me. I love the Bill Gates quote: “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
It’s great advice, no matter how you look at it. I tell my small business friends to think about that when hiring contractors. Your answer? “Bill Gates is on Epstein’s list”.
Okay, but the advice still stands. It’s practical. A lazy and hard-working person (the best oxymoron) will always have efficiency in mind. They want to get the job done quickly and without taking shortcuts. That’s a great trait to keep in mind when interviewing applicants. Sure, that particular game of catch has some weight, but dismissing every useful idea because of who said it is lazy thinking.
Gotcha games force people to think in black and white. We owe it to ourselves to think critically, because most of life happens in the gray areas where most of us actually live.
